Why: While most of the contemporary, photo-savvy population of planet Earth is busy staring at a gridded square on their smart phones, this exhibition explores darkroom techniques, light-sensitive emulsions, archival negatives and custom-built cameras.
"I always thought I was a liberal thinker and open-minded," he told me over the phone after his exhibition opening, "but I realized I never immersed myself in Western Australian culture".
The phone will be exhibited at CEATEC Japan 2008, a tech exhibition that starts September 30 near Tokyo.
He was devoted to a large number of people and would somehow always manage to visit their obscure art exhibition, or phone them at 2am when he heard they were in deep trouble, or attend their opening night even when, as we now know, he was already seriously ill.
We spoke to the duo on the phone regarding their current exhibition at the Montserrat Gallery and we have to say we've never felt so close to conversing with superheroes in disguise.
The website also claims that people can access an audio guide of Banksy's attempted New York street exhibition via mobile phone to get more information about the graffiti works.
Its next exhibition, called "Open Phone Booth" (and opening Sept. 11), features pieces by the Turkish artists Cengiz Cekil, whose work is part of MoMA's permanent collection, and Nilbar Gures, who now lives in Vienna.
Crause calls the concept "painting with an invisible hand" – Ackermann gave De Isabel instructions on how to make the works via phone and email, directing the exhibition from his London studio to ape the degrees of remove involved in the offshore dealings exposed by the Panama leak.
On Sunday night, a man who identified himself as Vladimir Umanets, and answering a phone number provided for an exhibition of "yellowism", said he was responsible for the incident at the Tate Modern and had done so in order to draw attention to what was going on in contemporary art.
The event's attendees looking for "Picnic" in the Android Market can find and download an application to any Android-powered phone and view a virtual exhibition that delivers a multi-sensory experience of real life.
